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HONG KONG, THURSDAY, FEBRUARY 23, 1928.
OUTLAW SHEIKH.
Leads Raiders In Persia.
STORY OF THE FIGHT.
Bandits Kill Personnel Of Two Caravans.
Basra, Yesterday.
It transpires that Feisal "Ed"] Dowish himself led the raiders, The force was divided into three sections. The first two attacked the encampment as cabled and
SEIYUKAI WINS.“
Results of Japanese Elections.
MAJORITY OF 10.
7 NEW CRUISERS.
Contracts Placed At
Home Yards.
A FLOTILLA LEADER.
Smaller Pasties Able To Form Bloc Barrow, Greenock, Clydebank, Tyne
Ala Dict.
And Wallsend To Build.
Tokyo, Yesterday,
London, Yesterday, According to almost complete The Admiralty announces that returnia from all Japan except one contracts have been placed for the prefecture, the Seiyukai have won construction of seven cruisers, the election with a narrow major-one at Barrow, two at Greenock, ity of 10 seats over the Minseito. two at Clydebank and two on the the third was foraging alone when The Independents secured 15 Tyne and a flotilla leader at Wall- It met the two caravans, the first and the Proletarians eight, thus send. Reuter. consisting of 25 camels accom- constituting a Diet bloc which can panied by 15 Sulbi tribesmen who, swing to either party; according to Arab tradition, are descendants of Mediaeval Euro- pean crusaders and are regarded guests, are allowed to travel free- ly and are never attacked by Nomads.
Osaka, Yesterday, Kuhara, the potential Foreign Minister, has been elected.— Reuter.
Earlier Results.
Tokyo, Yesterday.
The second caravan consisted 133 election results have
Minseito Party Selyukal Party Independents
of 40 camels and 500 sheep accom-published, so far, as follow:- panied by about 16 men. The Wahabis fell on both caravans, killing all the men and capturing the animals and were about to at- tack the third caravan when Bri- tish aeroplanes appeared and. bombed and scattered them.— Reuter,
Earlier Details.
A cable, published yesterday stated:-
The arrival of a messenger with a request for permission to trade otherwise the Bedouin would take what they required at the edge of the sword has shifted the scene of Feisal Ed Dowish's exploits to Koweit, in the north- west corner of the Persian Gulf, which is now threatened by the outlaw sheikh with 600 Wahabi Camelry,
The messenger was sent back.
POLITICAL ISSUE.
UNEMPLOYMENT IN THE UNITED STATES,
Washington, Yesterday.. Unemployment in New York is rapidly becoming a political issue, the Opposition drawing attention to the matter as a reply to Govern-
ment officials' repeated assurances
been
65
53
5
8
2
at the flood and likely to- continue
Business Party Tenant-Farmers Party. Farmers' Party
2
80.
2
-Reuter.
Social Democrats Reform Party
TO BE REMOVED.
U.S. REAR ADMIRAL CENSURED.
COLLISION INQUIRY.
Washington, Yesterday.
The Naval Court of Inquiry has
of United States' prosperity being
The New York Democrat, Mr. Celler, has introduced a motion into the House of Representatives asking President Coolidge to speed- up Government works throughout the country for the purpose of remedying unemployment ter's American Service.
TEA-POT DOME.
SINCLAIR AND OTHERS SENTENCED.
Reu-
Washington, Yesterday. Harry Sinclair, has been
sen-
by the Sultan Koweit, who deplaced the responsibility for the tenced to six months' imprison- fied the raiders, and as the Sultan collision between the submarine ment, William Burns, head of the is subsidised by Britain, H.M.S. “S.4," and the U.S. erülser "Pauld- Burns' Detective Agency to a fort- "Emerald." which bombarded ing," jointly on the two comman- night's jail, Sherman Burns, operat- Nanking in March last, arrived ders, and recommends the detach- ing head of the same Agency, fined at Koweit, where the population ment of Rear-Admiral. Frank G.$1,000 and Henry Mason Day to is under arms. Meanwhile 2,000 Brumby from the command of the 4 months' imprisonment for crim- Akhwan warriors crossed the control force which includes the inal contempt of court in tamper- Iraq border on February 20 and submarines in the Atlantic fleet for ing with the jury in Sinclair's trial
Letters and postcards for Europe and the British Isles are for-attacked an encampment at failure to "contribute that superior last. October.-Reuter's American warded via Siberia if so superscribed.
Jowarin, 60 miles south-west of intelligence and guidance of force Service. Basra.
The Akhwans lost 60 and sound judgment expected from dead and 200 wounded. The
INWARD MAILS.
FRIDAY, FEBRUARY 24.
HOVEL RANSACKED, BY ROBBERS.
A Chinese hawker living in a
an officer of his length of service, PIG STY OCCUPANT. Jowarin casualties were heavier and they lost all their cattle. Air experience and position" in the In Force machines from the base at rescue work of which he was
charge.. Ur caught up and bombed and
The Court, however, finds that severely punished the Akhawans. the rescue plans conceived by Flying Officer. Rolf Jackson crashed in the desert and was others were intelligently and well hovel which he admitted was previ killed in the course of opera-executed and that everything was ously used a a pig sty. before be done to save the lives of the sub-went there, was the victim of three tions.]
marine crew-Reuter's American robbers in Kauwaf village, Aber- Service.
deen, on the night of February 8.} The robbers took money and cloth- ing worth $14.
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Wellington, Yesterday. Nelson, in a statement, says
he
I will offer the New Zealand Govern- ment his assistance in the present
emergency.
I
SIMON COMMISSION, in Mr. R. E. Lindsell's Court at the
COUNCIL OF STATE APPOINTS COMMITTEE.
Delhi, Yesterday. The Council of State has adopted by 84 to 12 a motion appointing a The Prime Minister, Mr. Coates, committee to participate- in the commenting on this, regrets that Simon Commission-Reuter. Nelson's proffered services were
""Take What You Get."
The story of the robbery was told
Central Magistracy this morning, when two of the alleged robbers were charged and remanded. Mr. C. E. L. Grist was for the defence.
FATAL FALL
•
Chan Fung-ying (25) an amah employed by Mr. Kwan Kwok-chin, of No. 7. Nanking Street, Yaumati, was the victim of a distressing accident yesterday afternoon.
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not available many months ago. In the Council of State a motion Whilst she was engaged in closing Bookbinders. He added that he had received no was proposed by Sir Maneckjee a back window on the third floor communication from Nelson
Dadabhoy who, in advising them to of the house phe over balanced garding recent events in Samoa.--"take what you get and fight for and fell head first into the lane. Router.
[Nelson was one of the Euro-more arged India not to throw Her skull was fractured and she away the golden opportunity of ac- was killed instantaneously. The peans implicated. In the recent celerating the progress of the re-police removed the body to the Samoan trouble.) ;
forms by sulking like schoolboys. Kowloon mortuary.
Pundit Desikachara recommended
Impasse.
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